Ralph Nader often wonders why his American Museum of Tort Law, centered in downtown Winsted, struggles to attract steady crowds and is generally overlooked by residents of nearby towns. “When people ...

Barrett was Ford’s military attaché, carrying the briefcase always within reach of the president. It was dubbed the political ...

On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to ...

A few hours later, many more thousands of people, including a host of protesters, gathered around the Old North Bridge in nearby Concord to hear former President Gerald Ford speak about “the ...

President Gerald Ford ordered the evacuation of 3,000 Vietnamese orphans. On the first operation flight out of Saigon, on April 4, 1975, 250 children, along with American volunteers, were loaded ...

Previous presidents have also marked Revolutionary milestones. Gerald Ford launched the nation’s Bicentennial by lighting a lantern at Old North Church in 1975, symbolically extending Revere’s ...

Maybe she’ll get a new nickname once she’s on the outside. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the waif-like Charles Manson follower who tried to shoot President Gerald Ford outside the Capitol in Sacramento in ...

Scholten gave a nod to Grand Rapids’ favorite son, President Gerald Ford, while defending the necessity of the Education Department. Referring to Linda McMahon as “the WWE-administrator-turned ...

Kennedy, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush (World War II), proudly served and felt a strong bond with their former comrades in arms. Yet they rarely boasted of their service, which could speak ...

To learn about the life of the 38th president of the United States, consider a visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. Though he was born in Omaha, Nebraska, Ford spent much of his life ...